Biografía:
Minas Gerais, 1926 Autran Dourado followed in the footsteps of his family and attended law school, though he soon leaned to journalism and joined the group of reporters who at the time used to write for the Edificio magazine. He's cultivated prose and a refined art of storytelling marked by a preference toward inner monologues combined with freestyle of his own. Dourado can be pigeonholed in as a harbinger of intimate or psychological novel, though he doesn't go strictly by the genre guidelines. A case in point is his book "9 Histórias em grupos de 3" (1957), "Solidão Solitude" (1972) and "O Novelário de Donga Novais" (1976). His novels embrace "A Barca dos Homens" (1961), "Uma Vida em Segredo" (1964), "Ópera dos Mortos" (1967), "O Risco do Bordado" (1970), "Os Sinos da Agonia" (1974) and "Armas e Corações" (1978). In 1954, he was appointed Press Secretary by the President of the country until 1960. In the year 2000, the University of Lisbon awarded Autran Dourado with the Camões Prize, the highest distinction bestowed by Portuguese language literature.
